Aviation Week & Space Technology

High-altitude wake turbulence is often thought of as a bump in the night, but the tale of a Challenger business jet toppled by an A380 in January has the industry taking a second look.
Air Transport

Developing and testing a new product in secret and then going public or the other way around. Which has a better chance of being successful?
Connected Aerospace

The Trump administration’s attempt to opt out of the Restore-L project and transfer its technology to the private sector is raising questions and objections.
Program Management

Saab bringing to Paris a lineup of new airborne weaponry, from fighter jets to trainers and early-warning and submarine-hunting aircraft.
Defense

The U.S., UK and Saudi Arabia are key pillars for BAE Systems, and it is eyeing work in Japan.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
A venture development company specializing in commercializing innovations languishing within large OEMs creates a startup to unlock the potential in a C-130 drag reduction developed by Lockheed.
Aerospace

The first KC-46A won’t be delivered until after September because the test program is running behind schedule.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
Thai Airways and its affiliate Nok Air intend to use new-generation aircraft to adjust their fleet to match their network strategies.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The German air force is seriously interested in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the central node of its future networked strike complex, which includes unmanned surrogates.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Phantom Express to demo reusable launch; NASA seeks funding for low-boom X-plane; Rocket Lab makes it to space, but not orbit; NASA develops design tools for eVTOLs
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau, Rupa Haria
Aviation Week's guest evaluation pilot Tim Wuerfel is an A320 captain at Lufthansa and previously a Boeing 737 captain. Listen in as he discusses his first impressions after flying Airbus’s popular A321neo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Tim Wuerfel
Aviation Week’s evaluation pilot flies Airbus’s popular A321neo and finds a re-engined aircraft with more power, less fuel burn and emissions, and several system changes and refinements.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
As a connecting partner, Juneyao adds 38 routes from Shanghai, including 33 in mainland China, that no Star carrier is flying.
Air Transport

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events and Aviation Week Network events.

SuperJet International has named Stefano Marazzani CEO. He succeeds Nazario Cauceglia, who has been named president and board chairman. The company sells and supports the Sukhoi Superjet 100.

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Feedback

By Adrian Schofield
While the immediate financial outlook for the airline industry appears positive, experts warn of problems on the horizon.
Air Transport

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
First Take

By Graham Warwick
U.S. authorities are asked to decide whether offering launch pricing to influential airlines years after an aircraft is launched is subsidy-enabled price dumping or just an extension of established industry practice.
Air Transport

The latest defense budget prioritizes readiness and repair over modernization but invests in key areas.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
In this week's Washington Outlook: Lawmakers may have to clean up 2018 budget request—if they can pass a bill; U.S. airline advocates try to stem expansion of Gulf carriers; and Trump’s NATO demands.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
While most of Trump’s first NASA budget mimics the Obama administration’s, there are some important differences in emphasis, such as climate science.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Bradley Perrett
Detail design of a Sino-Russian widebody airliner should be completed by the end of 2018, by which time the partners will have chosen major suppliers.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
IATA’s base is weakening. It should embrace low-cost carriers because, legacy or low-cost, carriers face common problems.
Air Transport

Boeing’s “iterative innovation” strategy pays off as it secures a new future for the Eagle, Super Hornet and Growler programs against the odds.
Defense